textile industry
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftextileandindustry
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textile
noun[C]
uk/ˈtek.staɪl/us/ˈtek.staɪl/
a cloth made by hand ...
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industry
noun
uk/ˈɪn.də.stri/us/ˈɪn.də.stri/
the companies and activities involved in the process of producing goods for sale, especially in a factory or ...
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(Definition oftextileandindustryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Men working in thetextileindustryrelatively often had a wife with an occupational record.
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In thetextileindustry, for instance, this had long been coarse-weave cloth.
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In the early 1930s, unemployment increased considerably in thetextileindustry.
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Table 1 clearly shows the rise of thetextileindustryin these municipalities.
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The remaining towns were all centres of thetextileindustry.
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Thetextileindustryranks as number one in terms of exports, value added, and employment.
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Conflict over the workday was not limited to thetextileindustry.
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However, there is a sharp differentiation within thetextileindustry.
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Leaving the decliningtextileindustrydid not always produce success in other activities.
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Three-quarters of all the married spinners' husbands worked in thetextileindustry.
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The only other occupations employing more than three married women in a thousand were laundry work, innkeeping, the grocery trade, dressmaking and the woollentextileindustry.
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Nevertheless, changes specific to thetextileindustry, which was characterized by an early advent of capitalist relations, did almost certainly increase the proportion of married female wage labourers.
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But the figures also indicate that 25 per cent of all husbands performed a profession totally unrelated to thetextileindustry, let alone to the spinning activities of their wives.
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Furthermore, he argues that many women found employment in thetextileindustryand in other trades, which gave them considerable economic independence.
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A case in point is thetextileindustry, which suffered from the unreliable availability of basic materials.
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Abeokuta's integration into the international economy had a profound effect on its localtextileindustry.
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It is generally assumed that wives worked alongside their husbands in thetextileindustry, mostly as spinners, but this supposition is seldom substantiated with direct or even indirect evidence.
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More specifically in thetextileindustry, this meant that crafts like weaving, dyeing and finishing were almost always done by men.
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For one thing, it had become, by the early 1930s, the crucible of very explosive industrial relations in thetextileindustry.
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After this period, though, young women attached increasing importance to housework, and by the 1920s, they were as willing to be employed in domestic service as in thetextileindustry.
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